The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 123

‘Never fear, little mother,’ answered Martin; ‘trust me, and you will see all will be well.

Who acts: fear, you, all · What happens: answer, trust, see, be · To what, where: Martin, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, you, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 fear	advmod
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fear	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 trust	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 trust	punct
13	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 trust	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 trust	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 well	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 well	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 well	cop
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 see	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	fear and little mother		Martin		tree rules
2	trust	infinitive		me			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	see	future	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	future	all			well property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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